Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:38:28 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [2.6.17-rc6] Section mismatch in drivers/net/ne.o during modpost |
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> Probably over enthusiastic gcc inlining. gcc 4 will inline functions > that are not declared as inline. That is not so bad, except that some > versions of gcc will ignore a mismatch in function attributes and > inline a __init function into normal text, generating additional > section mismatches. When using -ffunction-sections (or similar) then we ask gcc to put each function in separate sections. In this case it is OK to mix sections. But I agree, gcc should not mix user specified sections.
> For a specific example, see > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113824309203482&w=2 That's a good example - thanks!
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